DOES STRESS MAKE YOU FEEL OLDER? A DAILY DIARY STUDY OF SUBJECTIVE AGING, STRESS, AND UPLIFTS IN TURKIYE

Abstract Subjective aging, how one perceives their age, is associated with psychological, emotional, and social well-being. Adults’ subjective perceptions of their age are malleable and can fluctuate on a daily basis, influenced by various life events such as experiencing stress or uplifts. We conducted a 14-day daily diary study to assess how subjective age and ageist attitudes are predicted by daily stressful events and uplifts in Turkey/Turkiye. 68 Turkish participants aged 50 to 90 years (M= 57) responded to subjective age, ageist attitudes, stress, and uplifts questionnaires every day. Multilevel model analyses indicated that individuals perceived themselves as emotionally and physically older on days when they encountered more stressors and fewer uplifting events. Additionally, on those days, participants reported that they looked and behaved older than their chronological ages. Uplifts corresponded negatively to ageist attitudes; individuals who experienced more uplifting events during the day had fewer negative judgments of aging. Taking age as a subjective construct, these results suggest that having fewer stressors in daily life changes people’s feelings about their aging process. In addition, involvement in uplifts can buffer ageist attitudes on a daily basis.

recipients in complying with federal data-sharing expectations with minimal disruptions to their research.This presentation will provide a detailed overview of the new data-sharing requirements and how to incorporate them into the required data-sharing plan.We will offer examples of successful data-sharing plans, identifying an appropriate repository, budgeting for the data preparation process, and creating informed consent documents consistent with the spirit of the NIH Data Sharing requirements.In addition to explaining the new data-sharing policy, the presentation will discuss the rationale behind the requirements and how they contribute to data equity using the FAIR principles.By increasing access to federally funded data, we contribute to a multidisciplinary approach that enhances cross-disciplinary communication and a broad understanding of different ways of knowing when working collaboratively with other researchers.Team Science has facilitated substantive discourse between qualitative and quantitative specialists.Multidisciplinary research increasingly represents a critical aspect of overall knowledge creation.Finally, the presentation will illustrate how data-sharing increases the impact of studies and enhances the credentials of researchers who engage in data-sharing.

THE EXPERIENCE OF AGING IN DAILY LIFE IN CROSS-CULTURAL CONTEXTS
Chair: Shevaun Neupert Co-Chair: Yuval Palgi Subjective views of aging capture the many ways that people acknowledge, contemplate, and reflect on aging.These views are related to a wide range of health and well-being indicators including emotional well-being, mental health, chronic health conditions, memory functioning, and even life expectancy.However, most of what we know about subjective views of aging and health is based on W.E.I.R.D. (Western, Educated, Industrialized, Rich, Democratic) samples.The Subjective Aging within Global Everyday ecological Studies (Subjective AGES) consortium was built to address this problem by collecting parallel daily diary data from the United States, Turkey, Germany, United Kingdom, and Israel.Neupert will provide an overview of the consortium and present findings from the U.S. data, focusing on the interaction of daily stressors and uplifts for subjective aging.Can will demonstrate the deleterious effects of daily stressors on subjective aging within the Turkish data.Kornadt will show the beneficial effects of daily uplifts on subjective aging within the German data.Tse will demonstrate that doing personally meaningful and flow-conducive activities predicts feeling younger in the United Kingdom data.Shrira, Palgi, and Neupert will show cultural differences and similarities between Israeli Jews and Arabs and then present cross-country differences comparing the Israeli sample to the American sample.The talk will end by synthesizing the findings from each talk and pointing to future directions for the consortium.Collectively, these findings point to the importance of taking a cultural perspective in the daily relationships between subjective aging and well-being.

THE SYNERGISTIC EFFECT OF STRESSORS AND UPLIFTS FOR DAILY SUBJECTIVE AGING IN THE US Shevaun Neupert, North Carolina State University, Raleigh, North Carolina, United States
Exposure to daily stressors is consistently associated with reduced health and well-being, including feeling subjectively older.Experiencing uplifts, however, are typically associated with increased health and well-being, but have not yet been examined with respect to subjective aging.The current study tested daily stressors and uplifts as unique as well as interactive effects for daily subjective age and daily ageist attitudes.A sample of 440 U.S. adults aged 50-85 participated in a 14-day daily diary study, reporting on their subjective age, ageist attitudes, daily stressors, and daily uplifts each day.All variables demonstrated significant within-person variability, with ICCs ranging from .68 (uplifts) to .75 (subjective age).Daily stressors and daily uplifts were each uniquely predictive of daily ageist attitudes, where daily stressors were positively associated and daily uplifts were negatively associated with daily ageist attitudes.For daily subjective age, there was a synergistic effect of daily stressors and daily uplifts.On days with no stressors, daily uplifts were not associated with daily subjective age.However, on days with stressors, increases in daily uplifts were associated with significant decreases in subjective age.These findings underscore the multidimensionality of subjective age constructs and will be situated within cross-cultural comparisons.
Abstract citation ID: igad104.1535Subjective aging, how one perceives their age, is associated with psychological, emotional, and social well-being.Adults' subjective perceptions of their age are malleable and can fluctuate on a daily basis, influenced by various life events such as experiencing stress or uplifts.We conducted a 14-day daily diary study to assess how subjective age and ageist attitudes are predicted by daily stressful events and uplifts in Turkey/Turkiye.68 Turkish participants aged 50 to 90 years (M= 57) responded to subjective age, ageist attitudes, stress, and uplifts questionnaires every day.Multilevel model analyses indicated that individuals perceived themselves as emotionally and physically older on days when they encountered more stressors and fewer uplifting events.Additionally, on those days, participants reported that they looked and behaved older than their chronological ages.Uplifts corresponded negatively to ageist attitudes; individuals who experienced more uplifting events during the day had fewer negative judgments of aging.Taking age as a subjective construct, these results suggest that having fewer stressors in daily life changes people's feelings about their aging process.In addition, involvement in uplifts can buffer ageist attitudes on a daily basis.

FEELING YOUNGER TODAY? THE ROLE OF MEANINGFUL AND FLOW-CONDUCIVE ACTIVITIES Dwight Tse, University of Strathclyde, Glasgow, Scotland, United Kingdom
Given the conceptualization of subjective age being a construct that varies daily, one question naturally follows is whether doing particular activities may be associated with daily subjective age.Specifically, extrapolating from flow and vital engagement theory, we hypothesize that activities that are personally meaningful or flow-conducive (activities that are conducive to flow experience, a psychological state of simultaneously intense concentration and enjoyment) may be associated with older adults' feeling younger on the day.In a 14-day diary study, participants residing in the United Kingdom reported their subjective age at the end of the day.They also identified the activity on which they spent most time during the day and reported their flow experience and perceived meaningfulness in the activity.With the initial data from a sample of N = 69 adults (age range: 50 to 83) who completed at least 7 daily surveys, we found that higherthan-usual (i.e., within-person) levels of both activity meaningfulness and flow experience were associated with feeling younger.These effects were robust even after controlling for daily stressors and uplifts.Interestingly, there was an interaction between within-person activity meaningfulness and flow experience, such that the effect of flow experience was stronger in activities with lower (vs.higher) levels of meaningfulness.Our findings provide preliminary support that doing personally meaningful and flow-conducive activities may be associated with feeling younger on the day, underscoring the possibility of activity-level behavioral change that influences subjective age.

WITHIN-AND BETWEEN-COUNTRY DIFFERENCES IN DAILY ASSOCIATION OF VIEWS OF AGING AND NEGATIVE AFFECT
Amit Shrira 1 , Yuval Palgi 2 , and Shevaun Neupert 3 , 1. Bar Ilan University,Ramat Gan,HaMerkaz,Israel,2. University of Haifa,Haifa,Hefa,Israel,3. North Carolina State University,Raleigh,North Carolina,United States Few studies found cultural differences, both across and within countries, in the association between subjective views of aging (VoA) and psychological concomitants.However, a question remains whether such cultural differences exist on a daily level.We therefore examined cultural differences in daily covariation of VoA and negative affect (NA) within an Israeli sample (comparing Israeli Jews to Arabs) and between countries (comparing the Israeli sample to an American sample).The Israeli sample included 75 participants (age ranged 50 to 88, 36% Arabs).The American sample included 77 participants (age ranged 50 to 82).Participants reported subjective age, subjective accelerated aging, ageist attitudes, and NA across 14 days.Within-person variability ranged from 28% (ageist attitudes) to 52% (NA) of the total variance in the Israeli sample, and 26% (subjective age) to 38% (subjective accelerated aging) in the American sample.On days respondents felt younger, felt to be aging slower, or had less ageist attitudes, they also reported lower NA.Cross-level interactions showed that the associations of subjective age and subjective accelerated aging with NA were significantly stronger among Israeli Arabs (versus Israeli Jews) and significantly stronger in the Israeli sample (versus the American sample).The daily covariance between ageist attitudes and NA remained similar across cultural groups.These findings attest to the importance of taking a cultural perspective on daily relationships between VoA and psychological concomitants.Our talk will discuss potential explanations for the abovementioned cultural differences and similarities and will point to future directions in our Subjective AGES project.Numeracy, the ability to competently make use of numbers and numerical information, is a unique cognitive ability associated with diverse positive outcomes across the lifespan.Often included as a covariate in studies of cognitive aging, there is some scattered evidence of lower numeracy in older adults when compared to younger adults.Importantly, one longitudinal study found evidence of a quadratic decline in numeracy starting in later middle-age.The current study systematically reviews the literature on aging and numeracy as measured by one of three frequently implemented objective measures: the Lipkus numeracy scale (Lipkus et al., 2001),